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Well it boils down to the simplest of things: Boys generally are interested in things while girls are interested in relationships and people. That explains why

Well it boils down to the simplest of things: Boys generally are interested in things while girls are interested in relationships and people. That explains why there are more guys as engineers than girls. It's not a question of smartness, more of interest and personality.

silencio 18y ago
Stop generalizing. I hate people, I am antisocial until I need to be nice (networking?), I'm with friends, or I'm drunk. Relationships I can stand because I really like cuddling and sex. I also know some guys who are the complete opposite, and it's sort of amusing because of how much I had to deal with as a kid for being what I am just because I was a different gender and I didn't meet society's stereotypical views on it.
- modoc 18y ago
  The whole point of statistical trends is that they ARE generalizations. Yes, you can find individual cases which buck the trend, but across a large sample group, these are the tendencies... How could you talk about gender roles and differences without generalizing? Or really talk about any demographic larger than a handful of people? Just because it's a generalization, doesn't mean it's not a useful piece of information.
  - silencio 18y ago
    My problem with discussing gender differences in engineering is that there isn't enough research into it. It can be a useful piece of information in the correct context, but I didn't believe the above was. There are women in IT who are interested in people and relationships and they are still engineers. There are women who hate people and are engineers. There are men....you get the idea.
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  - sealedidentity 18y ago
    Thanks for the support mate. It's amazing how people get pissy for the simplest things.
- mhartl 18y ago
  Stop generalizing. Is it not meaningful to say that men are taller than women?
  - silencio 18y ago
    It depends on the context.
    - mhartl 18y ago
      Exactly. In an important statistical sense, men are taller than women, despite the existence of short men and tall women. And so it goes with other gender generalizations.
andreyf 18y ago
ahem This is not saying anything about boys or girls in general. Let's be clear as to what we see evidence of - that boys raised in this society at this time are more interested in things while girls raised in this society at this time are more interested in relationships and people. Don't be constrained to the fashions of your times. Less than a century ago, would you could have said "boys are generally interested in making money, while girls are generally interested in cooking"?

silencio 18y ago

Stop generalizing. I hate people, I am antisocial until I need to be nice (networking?), I'm with friends, or I'm drunk. Relationships I can stand because I really like cuddling and sex. I also know some guys who are the complete opposite, and it's sort of amusing because of how much I had to deal with as a kid for being what I am just because I was a different gender and I didn't meet society's stereotypical views on it.

modoc 18y ago
The whole point of statistical trends is that they ARE generalizations. Yes, you can find individual cases which buck the trend, but across a large sample group, these are the tendencies... How could you talk about gender roles and differences without generalizing? Or really talk about any demographic larger than a handful of people? Just because it's a generalization, doesn't mean it's not a useful piece of information.
- silencio 18y ago
  My problem with discussing gender differences in engineering is that there isn't enough research into it. It can be a useful piece of information in the correct context, but I didn't believe the above was. There are women in IT who are interested in people and relationships and they are still engineers. There are women who hate people and are engineers. There are men....you get the idea.
- deleted 18y ago
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- sealedidentity 18y ago
  Thanks for the support mate. It's amazing how people get pissy for the simplest things.
mhartl 18y ago
Stop generalizing. Is it not meaningful to say that men are taller than women?
- silencio 18y ago
  It depends on the context.
  - mhartl 18y ago
    Exactly. In an important statistical sense, men are taller than women, despite the existence of short men and tall women. And so it goes with other gender generalizations.

andreyf 18y ago

ahem This is not saying anything about boys or girls in general. Let's be clear as to what we see evidence of - that boys raised in this society at this time are more interested in things while girls raised in this society at this time are more interested in relationships and people. Don't be constrained to the fashions of your times. Less than a century ago, would you could have said "boys are generally interested in making money, while girls are generally interested in cooking"?